Chapter 680 British Radar Station
"Immediately!" Kamler shouted loudly.
With his orders, the missile launcher had already been raised, and a stream of white gas ejected from the tail of the missile. With the sound of the turbo pump, fuel and oxidant were injected into the engine respectively. Then, an orange-red flame emerged from the bottom.
Two seconds later, the flames at the tail had stabilized, illuminating the entire dark launching position. The missile body began to rise slowly under the push of the full-power operating engine.
One, one after another, more than one hundred missiles were launched together. This scene is extremely spectacular and cannot be described in words. Only by truly standing in the surrounding open space can you feel this majestic momentum.
Kamler was in it. He looked at the takeoff missiles one by one, and his heart was flying with the missiles. The dark night sky was illuminated. When the missile flew up, the hot tail flames made people feel burning pain in their eyes.
The bright sky soon darkened again, and the flames gradually flew away, and the brightness quickly weakened, looking like a meteor.
Germany's first wave of attack began with missile attacks!
Dover, coastline.
When the expeditionary force was unable to retreat from the other shore, the coastline here was already on high alert. In order to prevent the infiltration of small German frogman troops, the shore here was always highly vigilant, and patrols patroled back and forth.
At the same time, some tall towers were urgently installed behind the coastline, about a distance of about a thousand meters.
There are eight in total, four of which are 120 meters in height. At the top of these towers, there are wide-angle transmitting antennas with a transmission power of 350 kilowatts.
At the same time, next to it, there is another group of four 80-meter-high towers, with receiving antennas installed on tops.
Yes, this system is the AMS-1 radar developed by British technicians, which is mainly used for long-range detection.
Compared with later radars, this device is still very primitive, especially if the antenna cannot be rotated for scanning, it has to be installed on four large iron racks. Moreover, the transmitting and receiving antennas are separated and can only cover the area 100 degrees directly in front.
100 degrees is enough. After all, their target is the target from the opposite side of the strait!
Tonight, they received instructions to raise the alert level, so the entire radar station has been operating at full power.
If the Germans were to launch air strikes, they would have a pair of sharp eyes. They needed to detect enemy aircraft in advance and notify the underground fan command center set up in the suburbs of London.
The command center conducts a comprehensive analysis and evaluation based on the enemy situation reports of the radar station and the ground air defense observation post, and then uses radio to command fighters in the air.
This is the complete air defense process of General Dowding so far.
The entire UK is divided into four empty areas, among which the 11th zone in the southeast is the focus of defense. After all, opposite them is Calais, and the Germans are likely to come from Calais!
Inside the radar station, the radar soldiers were staring at the screen in front of them nervously. The night was quiet, and only the nightingale outside was still chirping.
Suddenly, a highlight appeared on the screen, one, two, and soon, a large number of them appeared!
"I found the target and the enemy planes were taking off in large numbers." The radar soldier shouted, and he stared at the information on the radar nervously, and suddenly his voice changed: "No, it's not an enemy plane, it's a missile!"
If it was an airplane, the climb would definitely not be so fast!
From here, the radar can search for targets ninety kilometers away, so they discovered the target that was constantly taking off across the strait. Originally, they thought it was an airplane, but the climb of the airplane would never be so fast! In just a few dozen seconds, it climbed several thousand meters!
The missile is a German V-2 missile!
In the last battle, Germany used this weapon to attack for the first time, which brought heavy challenges to the British air defense system at that time, because this kind of missile could not be intercepted at all!
Needless to say, now, in later generations, interception of ballistic missiles is a difficult problem.
In an instant, emergency information was transmitted to the command center in the suburbs of London in the rear, which was also the command center of the 11th British Air Force Group, commanded by General Trafford-Limallory.
"Order our fighter to take off immediately!" Trafford shouted loudly: "Hurry, hurry!"
Britain is an old country with a large number of elite officers. After the first contact with this kind of missile, they analyzed this kind of missile.
The conclusion is quite terrible. This kind of missile cannot be intercepted. At the same time, they are also studying the question of how to use it if they own this kind of missile.
The result is also obvious. As the first wave of the strike, this kind of missile was used to attack the opponent's air base and completely paralyzed the opponent's fighter planes on the ground!
You know, the fighter jets of this era do not have a solid hangar. However, even a hangar with reinforced concrete will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of such missiles. Its warhead weighs one ton!
During the first battle, there was a lawn to take off. Now, the airport simply flattened the runway. Almost all planes were parked in the open air. Once attacked by the opponent, the losses were heavy.
Although it is night and although they are not clear about the subsequent attack, they have no choice but to let the fighter take off immediately so that the losses can be reduced!
The entire command center was busy, and they knew that the war was finally coming!
"Report, the radar station lost contact." Almost two minutes later, the amazing news came back.
Radar is their eyes, especially now, at night, radar will help them discover targets in advance, but now, the radar station is no longer in contact!
When the targets were discovered to take off, the radar station was on high alert, and the trajectories of the missiles in the air separated after taking off.
At the same time, because this kind of radar was originally designed to observe aircraft, they could not catch it when the missile's height exceeded 10,000 meters.
Until a few minutes later, when Doppler whistled in the sky, a terrifying sound that was much louder than the sound of shells flying, the sentry at the radar station looked at the sky in surprise.
Five missiles cut through the sky and flew towards the radar station!
"Boom!" Amid the violent explosion, a dazzling fireball appeared on the ground, and almost the area of an area exceeding the size of a basketball court was affected.
The high launcher was also affected, falling in the flying shrapnel and Mars flew.
Chapter completed!